“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This ability is obviously not only inherent within the human race, but it is used constantly in your ordinary life to some degree. [...]

Theoretically, if they affected Ruburt’s ability to translate the material. [...]

Your consciousness expands and develops according to its own abilities. [...]

[...] This involves a capacity and ability to throw yourself whole-heartedly into a reality enveloping situation, and yet to be aware of the self who is then so lost or enveloped. [...]

There is one part of the self, confident, assured of its abilities, and somewhat demanding, rather powerful. [...]

I was enough like his Father Traynor to be safe, and without me his psychic abilities would not have matured at all. [...]

[...] The development of abilities and the ESP book represented an effort by the spontaneous self to express itself, for this other portion of the personality was ready then to take over, and it then retaliated with the beginning of symptoms.

[...] You are realizing, beginning to realize, some of your own abilities and they are being misdirected, in the position of which you speak. [...] You have felt for some time, as you know, that you are living a lie in that regard, and yet you do not know where to turn your abilities or into what field. [...]

[...] This life is as important as any other life, and none of you attempt to deny the abilities of another for in doing this you speak against creativity. [...]

[...] This is like a young man saying, “When I grow old and retire, I will use all those abilities that I am not now developing.” [...]

[...] Any successes in this life, any abilities, have been worked out through past experience. [...]

[...] You must remember also that abilities from past lives are at your disposal for your present use. [...]

Now in a way your mother and Ruburt were counterparts; for Ruburt lives in a trust of individual abilities toward which your mother yearned; and Ruburt gives a love to you which your mother yearned to give — yet while retaining her identity — to a man. [...] And at the same time she was actually annoyed when she felt that you were not following your [commercial] artistic ability through, despite her surface misunderstandings of it.⁶

[...] There, the spirit of the third island has quickened the desert’s abilities so that it blooms with muted flowers not present before. [...]

[...] We see its abilities and its limitations. Our friend, the Jesuit, will do well to read our dream material, for dreams are a reflection of the needs of a personality and of the abilities. [...]

[...] He has freedoms and abilities and talents in the dream state of which his waking self may be unfamiliar.

If you think of Ruburt’s normal flexibility as a creative endeavor, then automatically and easily, Ruburt first of all, and you, will find your creative abilities coming to the fore in that direction, bringing about results that are far quicker, easier, and executed in such a manner that Framework 2 adds immeasurably to that area of your lives.

[...] There will be other significant data that will be observed, as he learns to use his ability. [...]

For such material to be made meaningful to the conscious personality, a training of abilities along the lines of interpretation is definitely required in most cases. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In such instances you are withdrawing your perceptive abilities from the physical body. [...]

[...] If I were you, I would concentrate upon the easy use of my abilities rather than my bite.

[...] He used to feel that you were accusing him when you said that he did not know what it was to punch a time clock, meaning that he did not have the guts or the ability. [...]

[...] Refraining from those while working as I suggest with beliefs is all right, since he is using his own abilities. [...]

The larger pattern of human personhood demands a bisexual affiliation that allows leeway in sexual encounters, a leeway that provides a framework in which individuals can express feelings, abilities, and characteristics that follow the natural inclines of the personal psyche rather than sexual stereotypes. [...]

[...] This particular latent biological ability shows itself only upon the rarest instances — because, for one thing, it represents a feat now scarcely desirable. [...]

[...] Because the intellect and the emotions were considered so separately, however, attempts to express intuitive abilities often resulted in, and often do result in, “unreasonable” behavior.

It has been said by some women working toward “equal rights” that the species has only used half of its potential by suppressing the abilities of women. [...]

(Here Seth refers to an article by Donald Hebb, a Canadian psychologist, who wrote in Psychology Today for November, 1978 about the decline in his own cognitive abilities. [...]

[...] They must be turned off, so that the creative abilities can transform them in their own way.

[...] I explained to Jane some thoughts I’d had in bed last night—that her returning home in reasonably good shape would solve all of our major challenges at this time: her career, income, insurance problems, physical freedom, the ability to travel if we chose—all of them, freeing us to start leading some sort of more-or-less normal lifestyle. [...]

[...] They provide for all of the energy and healing abilities needed. [...]

[...] He has told us we could never cover even a portion of the numberless fields bordering even our own; some will be explained as they impinge upon our own in various ways; Seth also has mentioned his own ability to travel through a few other fields. [...]

You should learn from it, for with your particular abilities it is possible that other such encounters will occur, though most improbable that the same system or field will be involved.

[...] When you allow disturbances to upset you, then you become concentrated so deeply within ego time that you close off those very abilities that you need to help you.

[...] With confidence in your inner abilities however your practical problems will effectively be taken care of when you do not dwell upon them, and greater mobility will be achieved as far as other layers of the self are concerned.

[...] It will be remembered that Seth has strong subconscious abilities.)

[...] However, I have freedoms that Ruburt does not have, and I am freer to use my abilities than he is.

It would be difficult for me to change the features of a third individual indeed, but far less difficult to change Ruburt’s features, since he gives me permission to work through him, and his mental and psychic abilities would help me. [...]

[...] You face your first day upon the planet with skills and abilities already built in, though they may or may not be used; and they are not merely the result of heredity as you think of it.

Each personality has within it the ability not only to gain a new type of existence in the environment — in your case in physical reality — but to add creatively to the very quality of its own consciousness, and in so doing to work its way through the specialized system, breaking the barriers of reality as it knows it.

It was only natural that certain experiences would seem better than others, but the species’ new abilities made it necessary that sharp distinctions be made. [...]

The individual therefore deprives himself of the use of much of his ability. [...]